A method of wireless communication may include transmitting an uplink slot with a first control region, a second control region, and (e.g., optionally) a data region. Each region may include time resources and frequency resources. Transmitting the uplink slot may include transmitting the first control region in an earlier part of the uplink slot and transmitting the second control region (e.g., and the data region) in a later part of the uplink slot. The first control region may include time-critical control information and the second control region may include non-time-critical control information. A receiver receiving the uplink slot may receive the first control region before receiving the data region and the second control region.
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control region comprises one or more of an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second control region comprises one or more of directional communication information, a channel quality indication (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), a scheduling information indicator (SI), a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a beam strength measurement.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the uplink slot further comprises a data region, the data region including third time resources and third frequency resources.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the data region partially overlaps in a frequency domain with the first control region or the second control region.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the data region spans each time resource of the uplink slot.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first frequency resources and the second frequency resources are nonoverlapping.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the first frequency resources or the second frequency resources comprise a subset of assigned frequency resources of the uplink slot.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein a last portion of the first control region is transmitted before a last portion of the second control region.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control region and the second control region are scheduled independently by separate scheduling grants.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control region and the second control region are scheduled independently by separate portions of a scheduling grant.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first control region comprises one or more of an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the second control region comprises one or more of directional communication information, a channel quality indication (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), a scheduling information indicator (SI), a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a beam strength measurement.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein the uplink slot further comprises a data region, the data region including third time resources and third frequency resources.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the data region partially overlaps in a frequency domain with the first control region or the second control region.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the data region spans each time resource of the uplink slot.
18. The method of claim 12, wherein the first frequency resources and the second frequency resources are nonoverlapping.
20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the first control region comprises one or more of an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement.
21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the second control region comprises one or more of directional communication information, a channel quality indication (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), a scheduling information indicator (SI), a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a beam strength measurement.
22. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the uplink slot further comprises a data region, the data region including third time resources and third frequency resources.
23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the data region partially overlaps in a frequency domain with the first control region or the second control region.
24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the data region spans each time resource of the uplink slot.
25. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the first frequency resources and the second frequency resources are nonoverlapping.
27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the first control region comprises one or more of an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement.
28. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the second control region comprises one or more of directional communication information, a channel quality indication (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), a scheduling information indicator (SI), a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a beam strength measurement.
29. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the uplink slot further comprises a data region, the data region including third time resources and third frequency resources.
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